Instead, there’s a different version of TikTok — a sister app called Douyin. Both are owned by Beijing-based parent company ByteDance, but Douyin launched before TikTok and became a viral ...

ByteDance owns both TikTok and Douyin, and although TikTok has more users around the world, Douyin is the company’s cash cow and a China mainstay. By Claire Fu and Daisuke Wakabayashi Reporting ...

The Chinese company ByteDance owns two versions of basically the same app. In the U.S. we have TikTok, used by an estimated 170 million people. Meanwhile, Douyin, the app used in China itself ...

Douyin, which like TikTok is owned by ByteDance, said in a statement it is now authorised to use Tencent Video content and rules about how secondary content can be generated have been clarified.

That’s how we survived.” The formula is a big deal for Zhou, and a significant development for ByteDance Ltd., the company that runs both Douyin and TikTok, which is available only outside China.

Douyin, the sibling app of ByteDance's global short video hit TikTok, said it imposed additional oversight on live-streaming hosts and their activities during 2023 to rein in inappropriate practices.

According to SCMP, ByteDance launched Douyin Box in December 2021. On Thursday, Sept. 8, ByteDance decided to no longer update the platform, and the Douyin Box employees will be given a chance to ...

The Chinese version of TikTok has launched a special website that explains how the app recommends and 'moderates' content for its users ByteDance-owned Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok ...

Because it’s a Beijing-based company, there’s broad agreement that the Chinese Communist Party wields control over Bytedance. And Douyin has proven a perfect domestic propaganda tool ...

By Meaghan Tobin Reporting from Taipei, Taiwan The Chinese internet giant ByteDance has made some of the world’s most popular apps: TikTok and, in China, Douyin and Toutiao. In the United States ...

Douyin, the sibling app of ByteDance’s global short video hit TikTok, said it imposed additional oversight on live-streaming hosts and their activities during 2023 to rein in inappropriate ...